The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction

In The Labors of Modernism, Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen and Jean Rhys. She shows that the liminal position of servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not just as characters, but as conditions for the production of literature and of the homes in which literature is created.

Author: Mary Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/11/2016
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781138270305

About the Author
Mary Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University, USA.